John Meyer wrote:
>
> R. Greiss wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I need to secure a confidential Document with Password, but I don't know
>> how.
>> Can you please help
>>
>> Reiner
>
>
> Put it on a disk and throw it in a safe (preferably one welded to the
> floor). HTH
>
> I agree with using some such method (although probably suggested in jest)
> for a copy of the file NOT password-protected. There have been enough
> reports of OpenOffice failing to recognise passwords, and the files
> consequently becoming irretrievable, to convince me that password setting
> in OpenOffice is unreliable.
>
> The cases where this happens are distinguished from incorrect passwords
> being offered by the fact that an incorrect password results in immediate
> rejection. Somehow OpenOffice corrupts the encryption process and, when
> the correct password is entered, it will begin to open the file and,
> during that process, announce that the password is incorrect. At that
> point, not even the password cracker on www.ooomacros.org will save you -
> you have lost the file forever, unless you have invested in a disk and a
> safe.
>
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